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Candle Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great…
- The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.
- Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
- Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
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